The FX Alien TV show news has been slow since its announcement, but the move to the small screen is beginning to take shape in Alien: Earth. The long-running horror/sci-fi franchise Alien has thus far been exclusive to the big screen, with the Xenomorphs having starred in eight motion pictures to date. Beginning in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s Alien and continuing through to Scott’s prequel Alien: Covenant in 2017, the series has a long and rich history — and its next big leap will be to the small screen with Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth on FX.

Shortly after acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019, Disney announced plans to create a new installment in the Alien movie franchise. While a new movie did eventually take shape, the studio also made it known that it intended to bring the Alien mythology to TV for the first time. The announcement came in 2020, along with news that Fargo‘s Noah Hawley will act as showrunner. Taking the franchise in a fresh new direction, Alien: Earth is already shaping up to be the most original installment since the 1979 original.

Alien: Earth Latest News

A Revealing New Trailer Is Dropped

With the show’s 2025 release coming nearer, the latest news arrives in the form of a short teaser for Alien: Earth. In the latest in a long line of brief teases for the upcoming sci-fi horror show, the sub-one-minute trailer is from the perspective of a Xenomorph face-hugger as it scurries through the hall of a spaceship as alarms play, and a voice reveals a “containment breach.” Finally, the alien creature reaches a porthole where the perspective shifts to outside the ship to reveal that it is crashing down onto Earth with its extraterrestrial cargo.

While none of the trailers have given away any information about the characters or plot of the show, the latest teaser finally fills in a crucial gap. Through a clever glimpse at the alien, the trailer has finally revealed exactly how the Xenomorph makes it back to Earth in the eponymous series. Now, it seems as if an abandoned ship will carry the evil pᴀssengers all the way back to Terra.

Alien: Earth Production Status

The FX Alien TV Series Is Coming In 2025

No Alien: Earth release date has been announced yet, though Noah Hawley’s comments revealed he and FX are aiming for a 2025 window. Multiple pandemic-fueled delays, as well as the need to fit Fargo season 5 into Hawley’s schedule, have meant a shifting shooting window, but Hawley has confirmed that work on his Alien series is “going great,” albeit slowly.

Alien: Earth Cast Details

Timothy Olyphant Plays A Replicant

The Alien TV show cast its first actor with Sydney Chandler joining the series in May 2023. Chandler will be playing Wendy, a woman with the body of an adult but the mind of a child. Timothy Olyphant is also slated to appear in the show as a synth named Kirsh who is Wendy’s mentor and might have a connection to the synth, David, from Prometheus. Also, Foundation star Sandra Yi Sencindiver has been cast as an unnamed higher-up at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

The known cast of the Alien: Earth includes:

Actor	Alien: Earth Role
Sydney Chandler	Wendy
Timothy Olyphant	Kirsh
Alex Lawther	CJ
Samuel Blenkin	Boy Kavalier
Essie Davis	Dame Silvia
Adarsh Gourav	Slightly
Kit Young	Tootles
David Rysdahl	Unknown
Babou Ceesay	Unknown
Jonathan Ajayi	Unknown
Erana James	Unknown
Lily Newmark	Unknown
Adrian Edmondson	Unknown
Sandra Yi Sencindiver	Unknown
Diêm Camille	Unknown
Moe Bar-El	Unknown

Alien: Earth Story Details

Weyland-Yutani Is Up To Their Old Tricks

Relatively little is currently known about the Alien: Earth story, with one confirmed detail being that it will be set on Earth in the distant future. Setting the story on future Earth appears to be Hawley’s way of refocusing what the franchise has been about thus far. Throughout all the Alien movies, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has been a consistent antagonist almost as bad as Xenomorphs. Relentlessly pursuing immortality primarily through the creation of artificial intelligence (and at the expense of real human life), the company totally dominates deep space in the Alien franchise.

Hawley’s Alien: Earth will reportedly explore some of Weyland-Yutani’s compeтιтors, suggesting that there are other, probably equally nefarious, means and methods being tested to unlock the technological secret to eternal life. It’s been confirmed that the Xenomorphs will appear on Earth in the new spinoff, and will potentially even be loosed from their corporate cages to stalk unsuspecting humans. In an interview with ᴅᴇᴀᴅline, showrunner Noah Hawley explained that the Xenomorph will change depending on “whatever the host is.“

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Alien: Earth Trailers

Watch The Teasers Below

Even before the show has earned an official release date, FX has released a creepy teaser trailer for Alien: Earth. Living up to its name, the teaser opens with a sH๏τ of Earth as seen from space as it slowly dissolves into a reflection on the shiny skull of a Xenomorph that lunges at the camera. The teaser closes with a тιтle card that reveals the show will arrive in 2025.

FX revealed a second teaser in November 2024 which clarified more of where Alien: Earth fits in the franchise timeline. The short trailer opens by revealing that the show will be set in 2120, before fading into a sH๏τ of the Xenomorph when growls and lunges. Though the teaser gives away little, it more firmly places the upcoming show in the larger Alien universe.

A third teaser trailer for Alien: Earth arrived in January 2025, and it explains the key impetus for the series. Seen from the perspective of a Xenomorph face-hugger, the camera scurries along an abandoned ship corridor as alarms play, and a voice warns of a “containment breach“. The creature reaches a porthole window and the perspective shifts to outside the ship, where it is revealed that it is beginning to crash down on Earth. While many details aren’t known, the teaser explains how the monsters make it to Earth.